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The Beatles

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by Bob Spitz


  * John took poetic license, adding the extra s to the name.

  * “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane,” originally intended for the album, were left off, following EMI’s practice, when they were chosen as the double-sided single.

  * On December 18, 1966, Browne ran his Lotus Elan sports car through a red light in Earls Court, smashing into a van and killing himself.

  * “There are 4,000 holes in the road in Blackburn, Lancashire, or one twenty-sixth of a hole per person, according to a council survey.” “The Holes in Our Roads,” Daily Mail, 1/17/67, p. 2.

  * Having made just pennies an album up to January 1967, their royalty rate ballooned to 10 percent of the album’s wholesale price.

  * By contrast, the Please Please Me album wrapped in a spry 585 minutes.

  * Only Henry Grossman, LIFE’s man on the scene, wasn’t British.

  * Peter Brown reports a similar, though somewhat more sensational, version of these events in The Love You Make. While Cynthia may well have alienated herself from the others, Joan Taylor says she confessed years later that “she hadn’t taken anything herself that night but had gone along with everything so that we would be comfortable.”

  * Of all the people interviewed for this book, not one suggested otherwise.

  * They recorded for Parlophone as the Scaffold.

  * In other accounts, she described them as a green-and-white-striped gown and black silk kimono.

  * In a subsequent Rolling Stone interview, he asks Yoko: “Was it my idea or yours?”

  * Also referred to as Apple Merchandising.

  * The theme from a British TV sitcom of the same name.

  * Cynthia settled for £100,000 and custody of their son, Julian.

  * Actually, the letter read: “Dear Sir Joe: I’ve asked Allen Klein to look after my things. Please give him any information he wants and full cooperation. Love, [signed: John Lennon].”

  * Ray Connolly of the Evening Standard recalls that Paul cornered him at Apple, winked, and said: “If you don’t tell anybody, I’ll tell you all about it.”

  * Jim McCartney had remarried in 1965.

  CONTENTS

  Welcome

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Prologue

  Mercy

  1. A Proper Upbringing

  2. The Messiah Arrives

  3. Muscle and Sinew

  4. The Showman

  5. A Simple Twist of Fete

  6. The Missing Links

  7. A Good Little Sideshow

  8. The College Band

  9. Chalk and Cheese

  10. Moondogs and Englishmen

  11. Hit the Road: Jac

  12. Baptism by Fire

  13. A Revelation to Behold

  14. Mr. X

  15. A Gigantic Leap of Faith

  16. The Road to London

  17. Do the Right Thing

  18. Starr Time

  19. A Touch of the Barnum & Bailey

  20. Dead Chuffed

  Mania

  21. The Jungle Drums

  22. Kings of the Jungle

  23. So This Is Beatlemania

  24. Once Upon a Time in America

  25. Tomorrow Never Knows

  26. In the Eye of a Hurricane

  27. Lennon and McCartney to the Rescue

  28. Into the Cosmic Consciousness

  Mastery

  29. Just Sort of a Freak Show

  30. A Storm in a Teacup

  31. A Very Freaky Experience

  32. The Summer of Love

  33. From Bad to Worse

  34. An Additional Act

  35. Good-bye to the Boys in the Band!

  36. Disturbing the Peace

  37. And in the End…

  Endnote

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Applause for Bob Spitz’s THE BEATLES

  Notes

  Bibliography

  Discography

  Photographs

  Copyright

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2005 by Bob Spitz

  Cover design by Mario J. Pulice; cover photograph © Bob Whitaker / Camera Press / Retna Ltd.

  Cover copyright © 2012 Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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  Words and music by Ned Fairchild and Eddie Cochran

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